期刊
APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
卷 99, 期 19, 页码 7997-8009出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6550-0
关键词
Functional screening; Protein expression; Synthetic biology; Chito-oligosaccharides; Lacto-N-triose II
资金
- Strategic Research Council in Denmark [09-067134]
This paper describes the discovery and characterization of two novel beta-N-acetylhexosaminidases HEX1 and HEX2, capable of catalyzing the synthesis of human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) backbone structures with fair yields using chitin oligomers as beta-N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) donor. The enzyme-encoding genes were identified by functional screening of a soil-derived metagenomic library. The beta-N-acetylhexosaminidases were expressed in Escherichia coli with an N-terminal His(6)-tag and were purified by nickel affinity chromatography. The sequence similarities of the enzymes with their respective closest homologues are 59 % for HEX1 and 51 % for HEX2 on the protein level. Both beta-N-acetylhexosaminidases are classified into glycosyl hydrolase family 20 (GH 20) are able to hydrolyze para-nitrophenyl-beta-N-acetylglucosamine (pNP-GlcNAc) as well as para-nitrophenyl-beta-N-acetylgalactosamine (pNP-GalNAc) and exhibit pH optima of 8 and 6 for HEX1 and HEX2, respectively. The enzymes are able to hydrolyze N-acetylchitooligosaccharides with a degree of polymerization of two, three, and four. The major findings were, that HEX1 and HEX2 catalyze trans-glycosylation reactions with lactose as acceptor, giving rise to the human milk oligosaccharide precursor lacto-N-triose II (LNT2) with yields of 2 and 8 % based on the donor substrate. In total, trans-glycosylation reactions were tested with the disaccharide acceptors beta-lactose, sucrose, and maltose, as well as with the monosaccharides galactose and glucose resulting in the successful attachment of GlcNAc to the acceptor in all cases.
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